This is the go to slapboxing style for most bruhs that spent time in the hood on the east coastFam I still do that shyt when play fighting nikkas. They be looking at me like
52 Hand Blocks - let's talk about it
- Thread starter KyokushinKarateMan
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word..that shyt baffled floyd. zab was incredible man, had so much man, very frustrating!!
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If a nikka tries to use it in the ring it's over?
Damnnikkas aint got NO respect for da 52's
52 with BOXING gloves on in a boxing match is
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tep into the ring and try it.
dang i need to read this thread when sober..
i know so much about this ish..52 rock n roll..mike tyson and few gods from medina lectured me on this.
i know so much about this ish..52 rock n roll..mike tyson and few gods from medina lectured me on this.
I've never trained in this fighting style but have always been interested since waaay back in the early 90s.
My personal attractions to it is that it's very street effective, it's a Black originated art, and the practicioners are usually conscious brothers (whether you agree with their 'religious' beliefs or not).
I also like it because it makes racist whites uncomfortable - and i'll touch on that a little more, later.
Many peoples' first recollection of ever even hearing the term '52 hand blocks' was when the GZA referenced it in the song "Cold World" from the album Liquid Swords, in this line:
"...Beat nikkaz toothless, physically cut up like gooses,
but with iron on the side thugs took no excuses, therefore,
your fifty-two hand blocks was useless.."
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Here are a few clips briefly explaining 52 Hand Blocks
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A few excerpts from Wikipedia:
Jailhouse rock (fighting style)
Jailhouse rock or JHR is a name which is used to describe a collection of different fighting styles that have been practiced and/or developed within US penal institutions. The different regional “styles” of JHR vary but share a common emphasis on improvisation governed by a specific set of underlying principles.
Some examples of the many styles of JHR are 52 Hand Blocks,Comstock Style, Stato. Many of these styles of JHR are thought to have evolved regionally in different penal institutions.[1]
Jailhouse Rock if it exists is in fact one of two of the USA's only "Native Martial Arts", the other being called Rough and Tumble. As such, Jailhouse Rock, the 52 Hand Blocks and their variants may be compared to savate, which was originally a semi-codified fighting method associated with an urban criminal subculture, which underwent a gradual process of codification before becoming established as a martial art accessible by the cultural mainstream.
52 blocks has been referenced in journalist Douglas Century's Street Kingdom: Five Years Inside the Franklin Avenue Posse, as well as numerous Wu Tang Clan songs and Ted Conover's book Newjack. Recently, celebrities including actor Larenz Tate and rapper Ludacris have taken up the fighting system for film roles and self-defense, shining a brighter light on this previously unknown martial art.
Existential controversy
"The existence of this martial art has been debated, but some media exposure has contributed towards verifying the existence of Jailhouse Rock. According to researcher Douglas Century, professional boxers, including Zab Judah and Mike Tyson, have testified to the existence of the style and it is referred to in rap songs by artists including the Wu Tang Clan. Tales of the pugilistic exploits of legendary 1970's New York prison fighter "Mother Dear" have also contributed to the extensive urban mythology surrounding this system......."
"......The name 52 may be a reference to the playing card games of 52 Pickup and to the expression "let the cards fall where they may." Other theories relate the name to a combat training game involving the use of playing cards and/or to the Supreme Mathematics of the Nation of Gods and Earths. It could even be a reference, coded, symbolic, or otherwise, to a specific cell block. However, a more likely explanation is that it simply refers to the fifty-two blocking techniques encompassed in the art."
"......According to Dennis Newsome, a well-known JHR specialist, JHR is an indigenous African American fighting art that has its origins in the 17th and 18th centuries, when slaves were first institutionalized and needed to defend themselves. Oral tradition has the skill evolving secretly within the U.S. penal system, with regional styles reflecting the physical realities of specific institutions. This theory relates JHR to the fusion of African and European/American bare-knuckle fist-fighting styles known as "cutting", which is said to have been practiced by champions such as Tom Molineaux, and also to the little-known African-American fighting skill known as "knocking and kicking," which is said to be practiced clandestinely in parts of the Southern US and on the Sea Islands..."
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And here are some excerpts I found from the site USADojo.com where the author is an obvious bigot cac:
http://www.usadojo.com/articles/phil-elmore/myth-52-blocks.htm
"...These techniques range from striking to wrestling, using the hands, elbows, knees, head butts, and some low kicks. Practitioners of Jailhouse Rock supposedly learn in-depth knowledge of pressure points and vital striking areas, as well as foot sweeps and “Gangsta Locks”(which Newsome equates to trapping such as in Wing Chun or Jeet Kune Do)...."
"...According to Newsome, 52 Blocks or Jailhouse Rock is an underground system. Unless you go to jail, hang out in underground fighting circles, or are family to an ex con, you’ll never learn it — and if you are white guy, nobody will teach it to you. ..."
"....As Newsome’s interviewer, identified only as “Dempsy,” wrote, “the art is the art of the African who needs it for survival. Much like the Asians decades ago, who would not teach outside their race, the analogy is that you do not give your enemy your best weapon.” In other words, Jailhouse Rock is a racist, racially determined system, in which all of you who are white and NOT in prison are the enemy. .."
"...The fiction of Jailhouse Rock is now realized as a living, breathing style because there are people who say so… regardless of the truth. In so doing, they’ve breathed life into the lie of 52 Blocks… and helped further the popular culture imagery associated with street criminals and thugs, for good or for ill..."
Got these bigots sick to their stomachs at a Black Martial Art
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More Footage:
http://www.nytimes.com/video/style/1194841017001/the-52-blocks.html?src=vidm
Good Article on 52 Hand Blocks and origin: http://www.fullcontactmartialarts.org/52-hand-blocks-jailhouse-rock-jhr.htm
FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/52Blocks
So my cousin from ny wasn't tellin
about this
We teach it as a cultural thing. Cacs only see dollar signs. Once all these bruhs are dead cacs will say it started in prison by an Irish guy."...According to Newsome, 52 Blocks or Jailhouse Rock is an underground system. Unless you go to jail, hang out in underground fighting circles, or are family to an ex con, you’ll never learn it — and if you are white guy, nobody will teach it to you. ..."
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We dont understand lineage and legacy.
sensei says only fool teaches his enemy how to beat him, he developed a martial arts style with lupe's dad, which I'm currently still learning, training with his sons because he died in his mysteriously, which I believe he was killed by the government. He refused to teach anybody who wasn't black and people came to the hood from all over the world to ask him to teach them but he did demos at other schools.
why you think them triads was on bruce lee ass, they didn't like him teaching outsiders that shyt
who remembers the name of the guy who thought the gracies judo, and they done got rich of what he taught them
Yup. I mean if you're going to get a License to teach the gift, there needs to be lineage, HOMAGE and kickbacks to the master from all schools. My coach has all the masters photos in the spot. You cant not know who taught who. That how its supposed to work.
your sensei's sensei must be a fool.
you welcome to come to dojo and tell them nikkaz that yourself
this nikka real revolutionaries not the fugazi ass nikkaz like you, you wanna be a NOI wannabe
Look at Phil Davis, he beat gus, and then trained him on how to stop he take downs, and they in the same division, that's just dumb, when gus came to AKA, cormier told him to bounce
now dumb ass rumble inviting gus to come train with him, its common sense
he don't train nobody but blacks because black people don't know how to fight and get abused by everybody else you piece off shyt, he did all this shyt for free and taught classes on black history for free
Mother fukker..who is your sensei and who does he teach? You stupid dumb fukk.
"sensei says only fool teaches his enemy"
this nikka learned martial arts from a black man
the style he taught is tornado, which he made up along with lupe's father, they are the originators
in the 70's lost of black people was teaching martial arts in the community, he from chicago, shyt was heavy there, so I'm pretty sure thats how got into in the hood, but he made up his own shyt
but it was rooted from traditional martial arts which is japanese, and yes the japanese were dumb to teach outsiders martial arts when it was also forbidden to do so